Once the furnace bug #9 is fixed, we will test for a couple more days and tidy up anything else we find, then submit to peer review. That should be no later than Sunday/Monday. So we are hopefully looking at a 1.9 release around the middle of next week.

Nb. The 1.9 patch is obviously not fixing all known bugs, just the ones I deem serious enough to require an immediate fix (and am able to fix quickly). And there will be no new content in 1.9 (except the permission revamp).

What that means going forward after 1.9 is that future releases after 1.9 will be smaller and more frequent. They will include some bug fixes (prioritized) and some new content. So it's going to take a few releases before we can fix all the known bugs created by 1.8, and before the Survival game mode is considered 'complete'.